EP0128189A1 - Procede et appareil pour mesurer la teneur en substances suspendues d'un milieu en ecoulement. - Google Patents

Procede et appareil pour mesurer la teneur en substances suspendues d'un milieu en ecoulement.

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EP0128189A1
EP0128189A1 EP84900149A EP84900149A EP0128189A1 EP 0128189 A1 EP0128189 A1 EP 0128189A1 EP 84900149 A EP84900149 A EP 84900149A EP 84900149 A EP84900149 A EP 84900149A EP 0128189 A1 EP0128189 A1 EP 0128189A1
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light
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detector
signal
medium
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Krister Lundberg
Goran Tidstam
Daniel F Pope
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BTG Inc
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Bonnierforetagen AB
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N21/00—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of optical means, i.e. using sub-millimetre waves, infrared, visible or ultraviolet light
    • G01N21/17—Systems in which incident light is modified in accordance with the properties of the material investigated
    • G01N21/47—Scattering, i.e. diffuse reflection
    • G01N21/49—Scattering, i.e. diffuse reflection within a body or fluid
    • G01N21/53—Scattering, i.e. diffuse reflection within a body or fluid within a flowing fluid, e.g. smoke
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N15/00—Investigating characteristics of particles; Investigating permeability, pore-volume or surface-area of porous materials
    • G01N15/06—Investigating concentration of particle suspensions
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N33/00—Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by groups G01N1/00 - G01N31/00
    • G01N33/34—Paper

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  • the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring suspended substances in a flowing medium by illuminating the medium with light from a light source, the light being detected in at least two detectors, one for measuring directly reflected light and one for measuring multiply reflected light, said directly reflected light refers to the light received from an area of the medium that is directly illuminated by the light source and said multiply reflected light is received from an area of the medium that is not directly illuminated, but is illuminated by light that has been scattered from the beam of direct illumination.
  • the apparatus is preferably intended for use in so-called consistency measurement, i.e. measuring the content of fibres in fibre suspensions, such as are to be found in the pulp and paper industry. The consistency is defined as the weight of fibres per volumetric unit. It is therefore a definition of concentration of suspended solids, henceforth for generality called concentration, since the present invention may be used to measure on any material that scatters light in the flowing medium.
  • the present invention relates to a method and apparatus of the kind mentioned in the introduction, said method being generally distinguished in that the detector for the directly reflected light is arranged at a distance from the light source such that a linear relationship between the output signal from the detector and the concentration of the flowing medium is obtained up to a maximum is reached from which the signal does not increase at even higher consistencies, that the detector for the multiply reflected light is disposed at a distance from the light source such that the output signal from the detector will be independent of the concentration of the flowing medium within a large interval, a signal being obtained from the quotient of the signal provided by direct reflection divided by the signal provided by multiple reflection, this signal being a measure of the concentration of the flowing medium.
  • Fig. 1 is a section through a measuring head or insertion probe in a measuring apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 1A is a side view section of the probe showing the beam of illumination from the light source and to the detectors.
  • Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section, of two designs of measuring apparatus according to the invention,
  • Fig. 3 is a side view in section, and to an enlarged scale, of an insertion probe included in another embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section to an enlarged scale through the outer end of the insertion probe.
  • Fig. 5 is a cross section along the line A-A through the outer end of the probe illustrated in Fig. 4, Fig.
  • a measuring head or insertion probe 10 includes four fields, field 1a assigned to a light source 1 , field 2a assigned to a detector 2 for direct reflection and fields 3a, 4a, assigned to detectors 3, 4 for multiple reflection. These fields comprise one end 13 of optical fibre conductors.
  • the end 13 includes a window 9 , behind which there is a flange 5 attached to the end portion with the aid of unillustrated attachment screws in attachment holes 6, the flange 5 being intended to centre and fix the optical fibre conductors.
  • the apparatus functions in the following manner. Light is taken through an optical fibre conductor and out through the field 1a towards the fibre suspension flowing in a pulp line 11 (see Fig. 1). The reflected light is detected in three different detectors 2-4 via fields 2a-4a, which are at different distances from the field 1a emitting the light.
  • the detector field 2a which is nearest to the field 1a of the light source, primarily accepts directly reflected light for measurement by the detector 2.
  • the other two detector fields 3a, 4a accept light for measurement by the detectors 3, 4 which is reflected a number of times in the fibre suspension and has undergone so-called multiple reflection.
  • the beam of illumination from field 1a into stock line 11 through the window 9 is detailed in Fig. 1A, along with the angles of view of detectors 2, 3, 4 through the fields 2a, 3a, 4a.
  • the angles of these light beams are restricted by placement of the light source and detectors with respect to the ends of the optical fibre conductors inside a casing 12.
  • the angle of view for detector 2 always includes some part of the direct illumination of the flowing medium regardless of the depth of penetration of this illumination, which decreases with increasing concentrations; detector 3 is barely able to receive a direct reflection except at low concentrations. As is shown by shaded lines, the angle of view for detector 4 includes practically no direct illumination of the medium at technical concentrations appropriate for this probe.
  • the detector 2 which has its field 2a closest to the light source field 1a, will respond more or less linearly to the concentration up to a maximum proportional to the reflectance of the medium.
  • the detector 3 will also respond linearly to C, up to a maximum, which also is proportional to the reflectance, and then will begin to decrease linearly with C.
  • About the maximum the detector response will be approximately constant over a wide interval in concentration.
  • the detector 4 will behave similarly to detector 3, but will reach a maximum at a lower concentration and decrease linearly with increasing C more rapidly than detector 3.
  • the detectors 2, 3, 4 respond linearly to light then they will output signals proportional to I. and varying with concentration C as described above and illustrated in Fig. 8.
  • concentration C concentration C as described above and illustrated in Fig. 8.
  • I 21 /I 41 variations in I 1 have no effect on the result.
  • attenuation in light caused by color in the medium or dirt on the window 9 will affect both detector outputs nearly proportionally, so again there will be no effect on the result.
  • the light is taken out via fibre optics towards the pulp fibres and reaches the pulp via the window 9 in the probe 10, as seen in Fig. 2.
  • this light is led back to an electronic transducer including detectors 2, 3, 4 situated in the casing 12.
  • the probe 10, accommodating the fibre optics via a probe tube 8 and terminating at the common end 13, extends from the casing 12 to the pulp line 11 inside a protective tube 7.
  • a sluice valve 14 in the protective tube 7 this valve being in an open position when the probe 10 is inserted, but in conjunction with the probe 10 being removed from the tube 7 the valve 14 closes and seals against the fibre suspension.
  • the respective beam path is separated by an intermediate wall in the form of a blind baffle, e.g. of metal.
  • the different parts forming the insertion probe 10 are apparent from the embodiment having no optical fibres, illustrated in Fig.3-7.
  • An electrical cable 18 (Fig.3) terminates in an optical unit 19 , which includes the light source 1 and the detectors 2-4. Outside these there is the window 9 fastened against the unit 19 with the aid of a fastening sleeve 20.
  • FIG. 4 From Fig. 4 will be apparent the way in which the window 9 is fixed with the aid of the fastening sleeve 20 to the optical unit 19, in which the light source 1 and the detector 4 are retained with the aid of a sealing fastening plate 21.
  • a reflecting means 15 in the form of the tip of a screw 17 going through the wall of the probe 10 comes a small distance into the light flow from the light source 1.
  • the screw tip 15 thus reflects a portion of the light coming from the light source 1 via a mirror 16 directly into the detector 4 , giving rise to a signal which is added to the signal I 41 from the detector 4 according to the relationship I 21 /I 41 +k ⁇ I 1 , where the constant k is obtained optically.
  • an extra detector can be arranged in front of the light source 1 in its path of light, whereby the constant k in this latter case is obtained electronically.
  • the linearity for the concentration values C of the flowing medium these values being mainly below 1%, as will be seen from the graphical depiction in Fig. 8.
  • Fig. 5 which is a section through the end of the probe 10 along the line A-A in Fig. 4, will be seen the position of the light source 1 in relation to the detector 2 for the directly reflected light.
  • Fig. 6 is a section along the line B-B in Fig. 5 and illustrates how the light opening to the detector 2 for the directly reflected light is laterally displaced in relation to the detector 2 itself.
  • a lens system 22 has been arranged in the beam path of the light source 1 between the window 9 and said source 1.
  • the focal length of the lens system 22 is selected such that the light going through it is focused at a point outside the window 9 , the measuring apparatus thus being insensitive to possible dirtying of the window 9 , since there is no reflection able to directly reach detector 2 from the small area of directly illuminated window surface.
  • Figure 8 illustrates the different relative signals as a function of the concentration C of the flowing medium. It will be seen from the graphs that the relationship I 21 /I 41 is substantially linear for fibre concentrations above a critical concentration C' and that the relationship I 21 /I 41 +k ⁇ I 1 provides a graph which is substantially linear for fibre concentrations both under and above the critical concentration C' .
  • Advantages obtained by adjustment of all the specified optical parameters include the extended linearity as compared with sensors using direct reflection alone, minimization of the effects of the medium color, surface dirt on window 9, and variations in light intensity I 1 .
  • Electronic means for powering the light source and taking the outputs from the detectors and combining them to perform the necessary division and outputting scaled signals to display or control devices should be apparent to those versed in the art.
  • the present embodiments use, but are not restricted to, silicon photodiodes of large area for detectors 2, 3, 4 and a gallium arsenide light emitting doide of wavelength 940 nm operating in a pulsed manner for light source 1.

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Abstract

Procédé et appareil pour mesurer la teneur en substances suspendues d'un milieu en écoulement en illuminant ce milieu avec de la lumière provenant d'une source de lumière (1). Ladite lumière est réfléchie dans au moins deux détecteurs (2-4), dont l'un (2) au moins mesure la lumière réfléchie directement et l'autre (3; 4) mesure la lumière réfléchie de manière multiple. Le détecteur (2) est placé à une certaine distance de la source de lumière (1) de manière à obtenir une relation linéaire entre son signal de sortie et la concentration du milieu en écoulement. Le détecteur (3; 4) est placé à une distance de la source de lumière (1) telle que son signal de sortie reste principalement constant en rapport avec la concentration du milieu en écoulement à l'intérieur d'un large intervalle. On obtient ultérieurement une mesure de la concentration du milieu en écoulement indépendante de facteurs perturbateurs, par exemple la couleur de la pulpe, à partir du quotient du signal fourni par réflexion directe divisé par le signal fourni par réflexion multiple.
EP84900149A 1982-12-15 1983-12-15 Procede et appareil pour mesurer la teneur en substances suspendues d'un milieu en ecoulement Expired - Lifetime EP0128189B1 (fr)

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AT84900149T ATE65130T1 (de) 1982-12-15 1983-12-15 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum messen des gehaltes an substanzen in einem stroemenden medium.

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SE8207180 1982-12-15
SE8207180A SE443235B (sv) 1982-12-15 1982-12-15 Forfarande for metning av halten suspenderade emnen i ett strommande medium samt anordning for genomforande av forfarandet

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JP (1) JPS60501125A (fr)
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JPS60501125A (ja) 1985-07-18
SE443235B (sv) 1986-02-17
SE8207180D0 (sv) 1982-12-15
SE8207180L (sv) 1984-06-16
FI87277B (fi) 1992-08-31
WO1984002396A1 (fr) 1984-06-21
US4641969A (en) 1987-02-10

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